Nearing completion: BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET

[aquaMat]

To keep you updated:

My latest one, BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET, is now - slowly - nearing completion. (Of the basic building process, that is.)

It's gotten quite big..... at the moment about 130 rooms, or so.

Also - as I had mentioned elsewhere on these pages, due to the

improvisational design process

the story has considerably moved away from the initial

Jack is in space / emergency-lands on strange planet

- scenario, even if the beginning with the ejection seat still stands.
Somehow the layout of many later rooms didn't really turn out very

extra-terrestrional

at all....   :-[   ahem..     :'(

So I thought I could do either of 2 things:
1.  Trash the opening sequence and rename the whole mansion.....  or:
2.  Leave the opening sequence in, and treat the mansion name quite literarilly:   Jack IS the brother from ANOTHER planet, which doesn't have to mean he has to emergency-land on a

strange

planet.
It could very well be our own blue one....only he's not sure where exactly he is.  And we - as players - aren't that sure either, 'cause there are enough unusual,

strange

looking rooms in the first half.

I tend to go with solution number 2.

Any opinions ??

[leo]

Option 2 sounds just fine to me.

If you already put a lot of work in, you should definitely try and save everything you did.

Can't wait to play your new mansion!

[SandyBean]

My Jack Wants So Bad To Try The Ejection Seat, please don't remove it !!!!!  (remember, he is a tad suicidal  )

thanks,

SandyBean

(Jack made me do it!)

[Semi-Native]

Yeah, please keep it all in. Can't wait!
[smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

[aquaMat]

Wow, thanks for the feedback !!

That's decided, then !

I'll leave it in......  
....but I hope it won't backfire on me that we have talked about this

ejection seat

scene now repeatedly....I can see how expectations are building up unproportionately..... :o  
Please don't expect too much.....and then be disappointed.
It's just a lil' gimmick, really.

Thanks for the positive, encouraging remarks.

I'm off....building.   8-)

[SandyBean]

Hi aquaMat !

Be disappointed........ya right !  By one of your mansions???  Me and my Jack don't think so !

Looking forward to it, hope it's soon, as we are going through MM withdrawal.  

thanks, and take care,

SandyBean  [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

[josephine]

Hey aquamat, check your PM's

[Wingy]

Uh oh... another one of AquaMat's crazy (but awesome) masterpieces. I haven't finished that last one he made yet, still stuck somewhere, I think...

Your mansion building style still befuddles me though. You have a very unique style. A very cool style, might I add.

[aquaMat]

Wingy, my man!

That wasn't what I intended..... that a mansion of mine is so a) hard or b) boring  that a master practitioner like yourself is forced to give up on it.
I'm truly worried.  
But I know what you mean.  For me, this often happens with Freddie's designs. I completely admire them and I do like them....  but usually somewhere in the second third of one of his designs I can't seem to get further and eventually give up.
I know I shouldn't though, so I retry half a year later - maybe get a little further maybe not. But still can't finish before I lose patience.

However, I had always hoped this phenomenon is not the case with my designs....and - luckily - until now I haven't heard too many complains.  
Maybe one nice winter day you'll find the time to re-try

The Complex

, I assure you it's perfectly manageable. (I even consider it to be less hard than many earlier ones.....).

For you, and all the others - here's a teaser preview of one room only (from BFAP):

[brell]

aquaMat wrote: Wingy, my man!

That wasn't what I intended..... that a mansion of mine is so a) hard or b) boring  that a master practitioner like yourself is forced to give up on it.
I'm truly worried.  
But I know what you mean.  For me, this often happens with Freddie's designs. I completely admire them and I do like them....  but usually somewhere in the second third of one of his designs I can't seem to get further and eventually give up.
I know I shouldn't though, so I retry half a year later - maybe get a little further maybe not. But still can't finish before I lose patience.

However, I had always hoped this phenomenon is not the case with my designs....and - luckily - until now I haven't heard too many complains.  

In the end this is really a matter of taste. I myself like Freddy's mansions very much. There is something about his building style that stimulates me. It has very little to do with how easy/hard they are.

In my opinion, therefore, we should all be reluctant to critizise the bulders' building style. There will always be someone who likes or dislikes a special building style and that is quite normal. If I, for example, decide to make another mansion, I will not be deferred from my building style for 2 reasons:
1. I like it myself
2. I know that at least some of you like it.